KDE Ships Frameworks 6.29.0

Friday, 14 August 2026

KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 6.29.0.

This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.

New in this version

Baloo

• Install kcfg file. Commit.
• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

Bluez Qt

• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.
• Mediatypes.h services.h types.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.
• Fix: resolve race condition in Bluetooth object manager initialization. Commit.

Breeze Icons

• Add im-matrix icon. Commit.
• Rename icons for typst mimetype. Commit.
• Add tab icons for KWin Options KCM. Commit.
• Add Android App Bundle icons. Commit. Implements improvement #508430
• Remove inkscape cruft from Android Package Archive icons. Commit.

Extra CMake Modules

• ECMAddQtDesignerPlugin: fix typo. Commit.
• Ecm_qtdesignerplugin_widget: fix INITIALIZE_CODE_FROM_VARIABLE been ignored. Commit. Fixes bug #523592
• Add missing doc link for FindKF6. Commit.
• Drop Qt5 CI. Commit.
• Enable gcov-compatible coverage when building with clang. Commit.
• Ecm_create_qm_loader: fix to listen just to language change of app instance. Commit.

KArchive

• Kzip: write data in chunks. Commit.
• Documentation fixes. Commit.
• Kzip: zip64 write support. Commit. Fixes bug #514117
• Kzip: use qToLittleEndian. Commit.
• Kzip: change some ints to qint64 to allow writing zip64 archives. Commit.
• Kzip: fix opening zip64 archives. Commit.

KCalendarCore

• Autotests/data/xCalendar-libicalV4 - update reference data for libicalv4. Commit.
• Add methods for encoding/decoding iCal objects in QMimeData. Commit.
• Make ScheduleMessage a Q_GADGET. Commit.
• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KCMUtils

• Kpluginmodel: Only write enabled state when not default. Commit.
• Run clang-format. Commit.
• Kcmshell: React to KCModule::representsDefaultsChanged. Commit.

KCodecs

• [KEncodingProber] Improve const-correctness. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Explicitly initialize some structs. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Replace pointer to SMModel with reference. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Fix broken UTF16 filtering for MBCS. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Fix GB18030 false positive. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Extend unit tests, notably for japanese text. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Shortcut no longer active group probers. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Refactor UnicodeGroupProber. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Refactor Unicode/UTF prober. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Clean up comments and naming for MB mapping. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Make one virtual base method pure virtual. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Remove obsolete padding in state tables. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Replace debug printf with categorized logging output. Commit.
• [KEncodingProber] Add dedicated logging category. Commit.
• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KCompletion

• KCompletionBase/KCompletionMatches: move Q_DECLARE_PRIVATE to PRIVATE. Commit.
• KCompletionBox::eventFilter: minimize code executed when filter not hit. Commit.

KConfig

• Remove unused variables in KConfig implementation. Commit.
• Revert "kwindowstatesaverquick: Do not force-show windows". Commit. Fixes bug #522205
• Add test for KConfigLoader ctor that takes KConfigGroup. Commit.
• Use Qt for ASCII && alphanumeric detection. Commit.
• Read config files in system locations before user-writable config files. Commit.
• Add tests to document status quo. Commit.
• Kreadconfig: Add option to dump default values. Commit.
• Kreadconfig: Dump entries sorted by group name/entry key. Commit.
• Don't change immutable non-default entry when setting default entry. Commit.
• Add failing tests demonstrating wrong behavior. Commit.
• Add helper to set/override an environment variable for a test. Commit.
• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.
• Always insert deleted key into internal map. Commit. Fixes bug #519481
• Ensure that deleted default entries are deleted. Commit.
• Fix generated setters for enum options with UseEnumTypes. Commit.
• Export StandardAction as Q_ENUM_NS. Commit.

KConfigWidgets

• Kviewstatemaintainer.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.

KContacts

• Remove dependency on KCoreAddons. Commit.
• Addresseelist.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.

KCoreAddons

• Kdirwatch: fixme++. Commit.
• Kdirwatch: sven--. Commit.
• Kdirwatch: typo--. Commit.
• Kdirwatch: use certified KDE if style with {}. Commit.
• KDirWatch: fix/tweak determination of default. Commit.
• KDirWatch: expose additional verbosity as envvar. Commit.
• Don't let fromAppStreamFile() modify the application data. Commit.
• AboutData: Add support for AppStream URLs. Commit.
• Documentation fixes. Commit.
• AboutData: Improve fromAppStreamForApplication() usability. Commit.

KCrash

• Delete the char ptrs properly as arrays. Commit.
• Load platform details ahead of time. Commit. Fixes bug #518503. Fixes bug #521631

KDav

• Use CardDAV allprop in multiget address-data. Commit.
• Make sure network replies are parented to the corresponding job. Commit.
• Add some debug to DavPrincipalSearchJob. Commit.
• Add a DavSslUiProxy to allow plugging user interaction for SSL errors. Commit.
• Network: Setup more strict network policy. Commit.
• Davitemmodifyjob: Fix redirection. Commit.
• Davmanager: Add missing doctype to sent XML. Commit.
• Adapt tests. Commit.
• Port network management from KIO to QNAM. Commit.
• Add fetching DavPush data in DavCollectionsFetchJob. Commit.
• Enums.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.

KDeclarative

• Graphicaleffects: Avoid complicated matrix multiply. Commit.
• Graphicaleffects: Make shader uniform "buf" identical. Commit.
• Graphicaleffects: Use "coord" input on lanczos.frag shader. Commit.
• Graphicaleffects: Fix Lanczos shader path. Commit.
• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KDE Daemon

• Use correct type for desktop file. Commit.

KDE SU

• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KDNSSD

• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KDocTools

• Update Turkish entities. Commit.

KFileMetaData

• Autotests/ossfuzz: clone libpng from github to fix unreliable sourceforge downloads. Commit.
• Fix overflow in extractAudioProperties. Commit.
• Taglib: Protect against UnknownFrame. Commit.
• CI: Disable linux-qt6-next while the datetime regression gets fixed. Commit.
• Types.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.

KGlobalAccel

• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KGuiAddons

• Add missing since information. Commit.
• Add KSystemClipboard::ownsClipboard. Commit.
• Waylandclipboard: Properly clean up device and manager. Commit.
• Kiconutils: Fix overlay emblem size and placement on non-square icons. Commit. See bug #498211

KHolidays

• Lunarphase.cpp - use the system timezone rather than utc. Commit.
• Support Hebrew Calendar holidays. Commit. Fixes bug #383896
• .clang-tidy - update. Commit.
• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KIconThemes

• Add notes to drop dependency on KWidgetsAddons for KF7. Commit.

KImageformats

• Autotests: add AVIF and JXL with animation. Commit.
• KRA/ORA: merged in a single plugin and added metadata support. Commit.
• Readme: update supported formats. Commit.
• Test Readme: added JPG support. Commit.
• Avif: enable decoding of files with invalid EXIF metadata. Commit.
• Autotests: allow JPG as test source. Commit.
• QOI: check format only in lowercase. Commit.
• Ossfuzz: optimize build, collect all HEIF subformats. Commit.
• Fix HEIC writetest. Commit.
• Ossfuzz: enable uncompressed codec in libheif. Commit.
• Heif: declare read support for HIF. Commit.
• EXIF: add support for Windows Explorer tags. Commit.
• Heif: increase Maximum number of child boxes limit. Commit.
• HEIF: keep reader callback table alive. Commit. Fixes bug #523105
• More HEIF-related tests. Commit.
• Heif: AVCI saving, JPEG in HEIF read support. Commit.
• IFF: support for ZIP compressed RGFX. Commit.

KIO

• UDSEntry: properly mark deprecated, add missing since, fix doc formatting. Commit.
• WorkerBase: give connectWorker and disconnectWorker back, deprecated. Commit.
• Kfileitem: iconName make sure not to read settings unless nessary. Commit.
• Knewfilemenu: minor refactoring. Commit.
• Kfileitemactions: remove dead code. Commit.
• Kfileitemactions: Correctly count actionsMenu actions. Commit.
• Kfileitem: iconName, allow to read .directory files on remote files. Commit.
• KFileItem: UDS ID changes are not detected in cmp. Commit. See bug #485052
• KProcessRunner: Handle canonicalPath() returning bogus values. Commit.
• Knewfilemenu: convert m_popupFiles into a single QUrl. Commit.
• Fix clang compilation warnings. Commit.
• StandardThumbnailJob: stamp the device pixel ratio on generated thumbnails. Commit.
• Knewfilemenu: remove unnecessary qDebug comments. Commit.
• Knewfilemenu: minor fixes. Commit.
• Knewfileinfo: add Antti Savolainen in copyright. Commit.
• Knewfilemenu: determine sort order during parsing and fix supportedMimeTypes. Commit.
• Test FilePreviewJob::emitPreview output size and device pixel ratio. Commit.
• FilePreviewJob: regenerate a cached thumbnail that is too small. Commit.
• Kdirlister: hold three directories in the lister cache, and not for long. Commit.
• UDSEntry: do not look for a shared value where values cannot repeat. Commit.
• UDSEntry: size an entry for the fields it holds when loading it. Commit.
• Kfileplacesmodel: when baloo is disabled don't go anywhere near it. Commit.
• UDSEntry use two vectors to store fields value. Commit.
• Kfilewidgettest: use the QPointF QDragEnterEvent ctor on Qt 6.12+. Commit.
• KDirModel: ignore stale listing completion for a directory no longer in the model. Commit.
• KFilePlacesView: cap the icon size by the real row height. Commit.
• Kioworkers/file: Restore ACL writes in FileProtocol::chmod(). Commit.
• WidgetsAskUserActionHandler: show the SSL error dialog on the GUI thread. Commit. Fixes bug #519614
• Knewfileinfo: add parsing fallbacks. Commit.
• Knewfileinfo: convert QString url to QUrl and QString filePath to QFileInfo. Commit.
• KUrlComboBox: mark drag properly as copy-only. Commit.
• KUrlNavigatorButton: Stat with no-auth-prompt. Commit.
• KIOGui: avoid QtConcurrent module header include, do link Qt6::Concurrent. Commit.
• CopyJob: cache the destination filesystem type instead of re-probing per file. Commit.
• KIOCore: drop unused Qt6::Concurrent linking. Commit.
• Threadconnectionbackendtest: ensure to have a context passed. Commit.
• File: strip local host from file:// URLs before accessing the path. Commit. Fixes bug #483297
• KCoreDirListerCache: don't adopt duplicated entries from a changing dir. Commit.
• Filewidgets: KUrlNavigator: fix applying URLs when text is not actually a relative path. Commit.
• Kioworkers/ftp: Claim that root dir is writable during stat. Commit.
• KUrlNavigator: Insert buttons at the correct place. Commit.
• Autotests: cover the DropIntoNewFolder drop plugin. Commit.
• Filewidgets: DropIntoNewFolder: do not tie folder creation to the plugin lifetime. Commit.
• SocketConnectionBackend: skip the resume read when the socket is closed. Commit.
• SocketConnectionBackend: limit the resume read workaround to Windows. Commit.
• SlaveBase: take a connection backend instead of socket addresses. Commit.
• ConnectionBackend: keep payload-reassembly length out of the shared Task. Commit.
• ConnectionBackend: rename closeSocket() to close(). Commit.
• ThreadConnectionBackend: drop the unused worker back-pointer. Commit.
• Autotests: add ThreadConnectionBackend unit test. Commit.
• Core: run in-process workers over ThreadConnectionBackend, not a socket. Commit. See bug #342056
• Core: add ThreadConnectionBackend for in-process workers. Commit.
• Core: make ConnectionBackend an abstract transport with a socket backend. Commit.

Kirigami

• Clickable link OverlaySheet QML type. Commit. Fixes bug #522348
• FormEntry/FormAction (cards): fix items alignments. Commit.
• FormGroup/flat: Consider also invisible items for implicitWidth. Commit.
• Fix tst_menudialog not actually doing anything. Commit.
• Make the GlobalDrawer correctly size to its contents again. Commit.
• Sensible height for license sheet. Commit.
• FormEntry: don't show invalid leading ind trailing icons. Commit.
• FormEntry: fix the subtitle when the contentITem doesn't have an indicator. Commit.
• Default to small size in FormAction. Commit.
• Same default width that kirigami-addons form has. Commit.
• Port AboutItem to the new form layout. Commit.
• FormEntry: items don't fill the width by default. Commit.
• ScrollablePage: Fix enter animation running when changing focus. Commit. Fixes bug #515811
• Work around missing support for QKeyShortcut in shortcut. Commit.
• Icon: use QUrl::toLocalFile() for file: URL sources. Commit.
• Icon: keep the aspect ratio of portrait images with roundToIconSize. Commit.
• PlatformTheme: Only emit color changes if color actually changes. Commit.
• Icon: snap the aspect-preserving painted size to device pixels. Commit.
• Autotests: fix flaky keyboard list navigation test. Commit.
• Autotests: fix flaky test_defaultFocusInScrollablePage. Commit.
• NavigationTabBar: add scrolling/shortcuts for tab switching. Commit.
• ToolBarPageHeader: Rephrase page.actions check to make more sense. Commit.
• Make qml generation deterministic by adding explicit dependencies. Commit.
• Port application template away from deprecated ki18n API. Commit.
• Controls: Guard against re-setting the global header with the same URL in Page. Commit.

KMime

• Limit the strlen search length as well. Commit.
• Abort search for encoding word end on first error. Commit.

KNotifications

• Fix since version in documentation. Commit.
• Ensure we have notifyrc file for platform notification configuration. Commit.
• Add API for showing the platform's notification configuration. Commit.
• Remove message extraction in KNotifications. Commit.

KPackage

• Remove obsolete doxygen file. Commit.

KService

• Deprecate KSycoca::setupTestMenu. Commit.
• Fix static build by exporting resource targets. Commit.
• Remove LegacyDir from fallback applications.menu. Commit.
• Add fallback applications.menu file. Commit.
• Ksycocatype.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.

KTextEditor

• Vi-mode: Avoid redundant BLOCK in the status bar. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Fix synchronization of the view block selection. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Fix block insert with tabs. Commit. Fixes bug #488801
• Drag pixmap: use devicePixelRatio of highest screen device pixel ratio. Commit.
• Drag pixmap: adapt hotspot to pixmap scaling. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Add Ctrl-A command to insert mode. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Implement column cursor swap for v-block mode. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Update view selection when switching modes. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Fix switching to vblock mode from another visual mode. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Simplify switching to visual modes. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Add the Date command. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Fix cursor position after paste in insert mode. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Fix cursor position after pasting block. Commit.
• Vi-mode: Fix AltGr detection on Windows. Commit.
• Renderer: Small refactoring of paintCaret method. Commit.
• Renderer: Fix drawing of all the cursor styles. Commit.
• Change icon for search plugin display options. Commit.
• Fix animation artifact during animation run. Commit.
• Avoid initial draw. Commit.
• Cleanup more painting. Commit. See bug #522525
• Cleanup render hint setting. Commit.
• Ensure we abort completion on config changes. Commit. Fixes bug #521492
• Vi-mode: Fix count-paste of a block. Commit.

KTextTemplate

• Consider non-empty generic containers "true" as well. Commit.
• Turn scriptable tag support in a plugin, as originally intended. Commit.
• Use QLocale for currency value formatting. Commit.
• Don't hardcode ISO date/time format. Commit.
• Token.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.
• Out-of-line the ScriptableTagLibrary destructor. Commit.

KUserFeedback

• CI - Flatpak - Update Runtime to 6.11. Commit.

KWallet

• Drop kwalletmanager launching from kwalletd. Commit.
• Move org.freedesktop.secrets group to KConfigXT. Commit.
• Ksecretd: Drop unused functions. Commit.
• Ksecretd: Drop registering KWallet interface. Commit.
• Use correct internal function to query local wallet. Commit.
• Port to KConfigXT. Commit.
• Drop code for writing default wallet in kwalletd. Commit.
• Query NetworkWallet and LocalWallet from backend. Commit.
• Fix localWallet with external backend. Commit.
• Kwalletd: Remove config fallback for networkWallet(). Commit.
• Actually set ok to true when defaultCollection succeeds. Commit.
• Drop unused internal pamOpen from kwalletd. Commit.
• Drop dead screensaver integration. Commit.
• Kwalletd: fix use-after-move in retrieveCollection() returning null on first lookup. Commit. Fixes bug #522847. See bug #512135
• Kwallet-query: persist writes to new entries. Commit. Fixes bug #491898

KWidgetsAddons

• KColorCombo: support d'n'dropping colors to set the color. Commit.
• KColorButton, KColorCombo: add contextmenu for Copy & Paste of color. Commit.
• KColorCombo: fix missing render update on changing color from code. Commit.
• Split off KColorMimeData copy into separate file, for shared internal usage. Commit.
• KColorButton: mark drag properly as copy-only. Commit.
• KUrlLabel: fix default value of useCursor flag to match docs & used corsor. Commit.
• KAssistantDialog: Merge "next" and "finish" buttons. Commit.
• Allow to test if on last visibile page. Commit.
• KColorButton: use chained constructor calls over duplicating logic. Commit.

KXMLGUI

• Avoid duplicate aboutToShow connections on the Settings menu. Commit.
• KEditToolBar: show no-drop cursor with "Available" list for own items. Commit.

Oxygen Icons

• This icon might be needed in the future and setting kinda ask for it but the name is kinda off as its bout x11 apps. Commit.
• More cleanup. Commit.
• Cleaning up an old icon not very svg. Commit.
• Missing icon on system settings. Commit.
• One more symbolic icon. Commit.
• More versions and better visibility. Commit.
• Some applets use these. Commit.
• Better contrast. Commit.
• New versions scale better simpler code. Commit.
• Remove dangling actor symbolic link. Commit.
• Missing symbolic potential icon. Commit.
• More icons. Commit.
• Missing icon on symbolic I think. Commit.
• The remaining sizes. Commit.
• Further improve Tokodon artwork. Commit.
• Will do for now, smaller versions will actually have to be simplified. Commit.
• Work in progress. Commit.
• This link should not be needed ita a bug on the nm applet not requesting the symbolic variant AFIK. Commit.
• Improved contrast on dark bg. Commit.
• More icons sizes that were missing. Commit.
• Improved version less noise. Commit.
• More versions and improvements. Commit.
• New symbolic icon. Commit.
• Improved version after testing. Commit.
• Symbolic version. Commit.
• Missing icons on juk. Commit.
• More sizes for juk. Commit.
• One more size. Commit.
• New app icon. Commit.
• 16x16 version. Commit.
• 22x22 version. Commit.
• Minor fixes to previous commit. Commit.
• Another icons and replacing an old one based on the new icon. Commit.
• Still not fully convinced. Commit.
• Missed this one. Commit.
• Remaining icons sizes missing. Commit.
• Missing icons and bug fixing. Commit.
• Missed this one. Commit.
• Icons: enforce current-color-scheme style id across applet SVGs. Commit.
• Fixing minor bugs. Commit.
• Final version. Commit.
• And more progress ...WIP. Commit.
• More progress. Commit.
• Different direction. Commit.
• Minor fixes to kamoso icon, introducins a new one for testing. Commit.
• More osd icons. Commit.
• DrKonqi icon for try. Commit.
• Updated info. Commit.
• New size. Commit.
• Osd symbolic icons initial commit. Commit.
• New symbolic icon. Commit.
• Unintentional deletion. Commit.
• New icons. Commit.
• Symlink for kontacts. Commit.
• New symbolic icon for use in system-try. Commit.
• Add IM user online icon. Commit.

Prison

• Include only needed headers instead of QtConcurrent module header. Commit.

Purpose

• AlternativesView: Added a disabledPlugins property. Commit.

QQC2 Desktop Style

• TextArea: Use Wrap instead of WordWrap. Commit.
• Use StyleItem for item view background painting. Commit.
• Allow QPA Platform Themes to avoid KIconEngine. Commit.
• Prevent TextField height changes when switching echo modes. Commit.

Solid

• Udisks2: StorageAccess: if '/' is a mountpoint, return that as filePath(). Commit.
• Solidnamespace.h: provide version macros to consumers. Commit.

Syntax Highlighting

• Don't do a reload on language change. Commit. Fixes bug #523233
• Slint: Include upstream changes. Commit.
• RTF: Fix unbounded context stack growth. Commit.
• Cmake.xml: update syntax for CMake 4.4. Commit.
• Fix listening for language changes, just react on the app instance event. Commit.
• Update MIME types for shell scripts. Commit.
• Meson: add meson.options to recognized extensions. Commit.
• M3u: add m3u8 as one possible extension. Commit.
• Cpp: Add qmqlintegration macros from Qt 6.5. Commit.